Chapter 19

Over the course of one night, Gastly mastered the "Substitute" move skillfully, leaving Luke in awe.

Though "Substitute" is a simple move, it usually takes at least three days for other Pokémon to learn it. Luke couldn't understand how Gastly managed to learn it so quickly.

Feeling a headache coming on, Luke tried to calm himself down. Maybe Gastly only learned a broken version of "Substitute," which might not be practical.

However, the system's move list clearly displayed the "Substitute" move, leaving Luke puzzled.

"Did you really learn it?!" he asked in surprise.

Gastly still looked weak, but his mouth curved up into a triumphant smile.

Luke patted Gastly's head and sighed, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Gastly had expended a lot of energy training moves, so Luke prepared a new Pokéblock using Leppa Berry to help him recover.

[Leppa Berry Pokeblock: It can restore Pokémon's fatigue after using moves and increase Pokémon's training time to a certain extent. ]

"Here, open your mouth!" Luke said, offering the sweet and sour Leppa Berry cube to Gastly, who eagerly swallowed it. His face immediately lit up with happiness.

Gastly: (*≧▽≦)

Luke smiled and said, "Okay, go to bed early after eating..." But Gastly immediately started training again.

A cloud of murky gas flew out of Gastly's fog, forming two Gastly in the air with a strange and mischievous smile. Gastly freely used "Substitute," having a great time.

"You can have so much fun training moves?!" Luke asked in amazement.

Gastly responded with a happy "jie jie~ jie jie~" and held onto his own little persistence. Since Luke said that the opponent in the group stage couldn't help him, Gastly decided to train hard and aim for the finals.

In the next two days, Gastly started to study how to cooperate with Substitute. At times, he looked like a broken balloon flying around the room, and at other times, he remained motionless like a wooden pile. Luke, feeling disturbed, couldn't help but point out Gastly's mistakes.

"You can't train like this," Luke said resolutely, "If your body and Substitute use the same move, it's meaningless."

He gave an example, "For instance, even if you use Confuse Ray at the same time, it's just to confuse the opponent."

"But if your body uses Will-O-Wisp and the Substitute uses Confuse Ray, you can cause a double Status Condition."

Luke chuckled, "When you master Double Team in the future, maybe you can even create a 4th or 5th layer of Status Conditions!"

Sleep, paralysis, burn, poison, and confusion...

Luke got a little excited at the thought of these Status Conditions being stacked together.

Luke couldn't help but regret for Gastly's opponent. If Gastly could learn the Substitute-Toxic-Protect-Paralysis tactics, he would have amazing battle strength even before evolution.

Gastly seemed to understand Luke's excitement and looked bright, as if a whole new world had opened up to him.

With a pencil in his mouth, Gastly spread a piece of white paper on the floor and eagerly took notes.

Luke looked at Gastly with a weird expression and said, "I just raised a glutton... It won't really figure out Substitute-Toxic-Protect-Paralysis, right?"

Currently, Gastly only masters a crude version of "Substitute-Toxic-Protect-Paralysis." The "Toxic" move can be replaced with "Will-O-Wisp," but the most critical "Protect" move has not been learned yet.

In the Trainer profession, the price of an official genuine 'Protect' TM is at least 100k, proving the level of krypton gold required in this field. Luke, with only 10k of net worth, felt embarrassed as he couldn't afford it.

In the system store, the 'Protect' TM requires 10k BP, which is more cost-effective than in reality but still beyond Luke's reach for now. He sighed, realizing that the Trainer road is a long journey.

Luke's "Teacher Luke's Battle Instructions" series videos continue to gain popularity, with views of '03' and '04' breaking through two million and moving towards three million. Although he deleted '01' and '02' due to rough editing and lack of dirtiness, Luke's number of fans has successfully broken through 700k in just one month and continues to grow rapidly.

With every click providing Luke with very few BP points, 100k playback is roughly equal to 100BP. While it's not as fast as battles, it's a safer method to accumulate BP.

Luke originally planned to make a ten-round draw, but he hesitated when he thought of the hard-trained Gastly. He decided to wait until he saves up 10k BP to exchange for a 'Protect' move.

On Saturday morning, the first round of the Group A group stage officially kicked off. As the protagonist in the rumors, Luke's Gastly became the focal point of the focal point of ten thousands once it debuted. What surprised the audience even more was that Gastly's Trainer did not even attend the group stage!

"We can see that Contestant Luke still didn't appear!" the commentator astonished said.

"And the opponent he is facing in this battle is also a freshman from the Battle Department, Wang Hao from Southriver University!"

Gastly, facing the ape in front of him, levitating while kept sticking out his tongue and making faces, doing everything he could to provoke it.

How can the grumpy hyperactive ape be able to stand this kind of anger, roaring anger, baring fangs and brandishing claws waving his arms.

Wang Hao also didn't expect, it turned out to be a Pokémon without its trainer's command.

Wang Hao looked strange hearing the surrounding whispers.

"Luke looks down on people too much, right?"

"Maybe the trainer is confident of Gastly's strength?"

"Fuck, its speed is too fast!"

As the game started, Gastly used Haze to approach the Mankey. Haze formed a grinning Gastly in midair, and three clusters of pitch-black Will-O-Wisp circled all around, whizzing towards the ape!

Wang Hao was a little panicked, loudly said: "Mankey, use Pursuit!"

"Kaao——!!!"

Mankey's crossed arms while holding Will-O-Wisp forcibly, the sharp claw swung out abruptly!

"Dark Type move 'Pursuit' is a deadly threat to Gastly!" the narrator shouted.

Before the words fell, a dark mist pulled away from Gastly.

The sharp claw of Mankey struck the fog, but passed directly through it, which shocked Mankey stared wide-eyed.

At the same time, two identical Gastly levitates in midair, making jié jié laughter!

"Using the instant formed by Substitute to avoid damage?"

"Fuck, which expert own this Pokémon?!"

The coquettish rays of light shining on the 'Substitute', Mankey had to close his eyes.

At the same time, Gastly teleported behind Mankey, and three turbulent Will-O-Wisp clusters rushed to Mankey with a 'boom'!

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[Get the exclamation from passersby, BP+1, BP+1, BP+1…]

[Gastly's fast dodge! BP+10]

[Won the battle, evaluation: (BP+50)]

At this moment, Luke, who is editing a video at home, rubs his eyebrows with a headache. .

When people sit at home, the pot comes from the sky.

Clearly, I have already advanced to the group stage.

Can I really win? !